Identification of biomass utilizing bacteria in a carbon-depleted glacier forefield soil by the use of 13C DNA stable isotope probing

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 424-437

  Zumsteg, Anita ^a,b   Schmutz, Stefan ^a   Frey, Beat ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; RNA 16S;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; CHLORELLA; ECOSYSTEM; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ICE COVER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PENICILLIUM; PROTEOBACTERIA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOIL;

ACIDOBACTERIA; BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHLORELLA; ECOSYSTEM; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; ICE COVER; PENICILLIUM; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLORELLA SP.; FLAVOBACTERIUM SP.; PENICILLIUM SP.; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84876192970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12027     Document Type: Article

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